Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1360s  1370s  1380s  – 1390s –  1400s  1410s  1420s
Years:	1396 1397 1398 – 1399 – 1400 1401 1402

1399 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1399 (MCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

• February 3 – John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke, dies.
  • Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
  • While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
    

    

    Henry IV of England.
• After regaining his power, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II. Richard is taken prisoner upon his returns from Ireland and eventually forced to abdicate. Parliament then charges Richard with committing crimes against his subjects.
• August 12 – Battle of the Vorskla River: Mongol Golden Horde forces led by Khan Temur Qutlugh and emir Edigu annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania.
• September 30 – Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king of England.
• October 13 – Henry IV of England is crowned.
• November 1 – John VI, Duke of Brittany begins his reign.
• Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
• Faraj succeeds his father, Barquq, as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.
• Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk-occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
• Ladislas regains the throne of Naples after overthrowing King Louis II.
• King Jogaila becomes sole ruler of Poland after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga.
• Abu Said Uthman III succeeds Abdullah as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
• The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

1399 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1399 MCCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2152
Armenian calendar	848 ԹՎ ՊԽԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-445 – -444
Bengali calendar	806
Berber calendar	2349
Buddhist calendar	1943
Burmese calendar	761
Byzantine calendar	6907 – 6908
Chinese calendar	戊寅年十一月廿四日 (4035/4095-11-24) — to — 己卯年十二月初四日 (4036/4096-12-4)
Coptic calendar	1115 – 1116
Ethiopian calendar	1391 – 1392
Hebrew calendar	5159 – 5160
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1454 – 1455
- Shaka Samvat	1321 – 1322
- Kali Yuga	4500 – 4501
Holocene calendar	11399
Iranian calendar	777 – 778
Islamic calendar	801 – 802
Japanese calendar	Ōei 6 (応永6年)
Korean calendar	3732
Thai solar calendar	1942
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[edit] Births

• William Canynge, English merchant (approximate date; d. 1474)
• Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1468)
• Rogier van der Weyden (other date is 1400)

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 – Nicolau Aymerich, Catalan theologian and inquisitor
• February 3 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
• May 12 – Demetrius I Starszy, Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (b. 1327)
• July 13 – Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
• September 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
• November 1 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
• July 17 – Queen Jadwiga, joint ruler of Poland
• date unknown
  • Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman
  • William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (b. 1350)
  • Sultan Barquq of Egypt
  • Trần Ngung, former ruler of Tran Dynasty Vietnam (forced to commit suicide)